#clause

The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment. ↗

— William J. Brennan

#adequately #clause #excessive #infliction #inherent

The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#aid #clauses #dominance #effort #end

It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#cherish #clause #conservatives #equal #equal protection

The "takings" clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#clause #conservatives #equal #equal protection #fifth

The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#again #clause #commerce #conservatives #court

Money is speech. It's incongruous to say a multimillionaire can spend as much on his own campaign as he wants, but you can only give $2,300. His free speech rights are different from yours, thus violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. It's absurd. ↗

— Roger Stone

#campaign #clause #constitution #different #equal

I had been warned not to get on a motorcycle, sort of. I think there is a clause in most general basic contracts to keep yourself in one piece and not alter your looks without telling them first. ↗

— Charisma Carpenter

#basic #been #clause #contracts #first

I watched myself put my paw in the bear trap on that one because there was this clause about leaving members. ↗

— Elliott Smith

#bear #because #clause #i #leaving

And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#beginning #changing #chapter #clause #couple

Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the provisions of the clause prescribing the duty of states to participate in sanctions. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#clarified #clause #duty #further #initiative